So it isn't an exaggeration to say that NYC's parks are a very important role in the city's own ecosystem. Providing the city's populace with a place to both relax and engage in physical activities, parks are an essential thing that makes this lovely city of ours captivate people world wide. Thankfully for those of us who in NYC our public parks offer various engaging outdoor activities in order to keep us active, which in turn obviously is beneficial to our health. One such park is Inwood Park
Inwood Park dates back to the pre-Colombian era and to this day has done a superb job in preserving the geography of the space. Located in Upper Manhattan starting from the Hudson River side of Dyckman street to the very northern area of Manhattan. Opened in May 8, 1926 the park has served as an educational and historical grounds to showcase Manhattan as it originally was. Inwood is as rich naturally as it is historically, proven with the fact that many animals find their homes in the park. The animals range from but aren't limited to birds of prey (raptors) such as owls, eagles, hawks, mammals such as mice, coyotes, deer and reptiles such as snakes. Inwood spans 196.4 acres of untouched history, showcasing the changes that Manhattan has gone through comparing the park to the current city.
During a school intensive I had attended with a class, we went to Inwood park and covered the majority of the park on a hike/tour. During the tour we saw the efforts that the park was exercising in order to preserve the native history and resources that Inwood provides. Such native resources are the white pine tress that the indigenous people had used as primitive antibiotics and band-aids. We also discovered the reasoning of the location of the hospital that placed in the utmost north region in the park, this was due to the fact that women of Victorian era nobility who bore children outside of wedlock were exiled and took refuge in the House Of Mercy Hospital. We had also learned a lot of interesting facts such as what glacial potholes* are and how they came to be and also how to identify poison ivy and why it's important to avoid it.
*Glacial Pothole/Kettle: A sediment filled body of water cause by retreating glaciers; often shallow. Inwood has many things to offer. In June they offer overnight camping trips and tutorials even teaching guests how to navigate via moonlight. They offer canoeing and kayaking during warmer weather as well and just does the best that they can do in order to remind people of our history and that we shouldn't be such a technology dominated society. The park does an impeccable job of showing that you can have immeasurable amounts of fun being outside and enjoying nature just as the indigenous people and the early Americans did.
It isn't an exaggeration to say that parks are crucial to maintain the important balance here in NYC. With everything become lenient towards technology, it's undeniable that we must keep some sort of physically engaging escape lest we desire to take a crippling blow to the health of the average New Yorker. Luckily for us, the inhabitants of the city, we have amazing public parks that offer a vast number of physically and mentally engaging activities that keep us in peak condition, or at least in far better shape than what we would be like without parks. Being able to hike, train, camp, and identify objects in nature are impressive traits to have for a person that would be near impossible to attain without firsthand experience. Inwood Park is an amazing combination of all of these amazing traits to bring out the best of a person's natural side and it should be recommended to all nature lovers.
So it isn't an exaggeration to say that NYC's parks are a very important role in the city's own ecosystem. Providing the city's populace with a place to both relax and engage in physical activities, parks are an essential thing that makes this lovely city of ours captivate people world wide. Thankfully for those of us who in NYC our public parks offer various engaging outdoor activities in order to keep us active, which in turn obviously is beneficial to our health. One such park is Inwood Park
Inwood Park dates back to the pre-Colombian era and to this day has done a superb job in preserving the geography of the space. Located in Upper Manhattan starting from the Hudson River side of Dyckman street to the very northern area of Manhattan. Opened in May 8, 1926 the park has served as an educational and historical grounds to showcase Manhattan as it originally was. Inwood is as rich naturally as it is historically, proven with the fact that many animals find their homes in the park. The animals range from but aren't limited to birds of prey (raptors) such as owls, eagles, hawks, mammals such as mice, coyotes, deer and reptiles such as snakes. Inwood spans 196.4 acres of untouched history, showcasing the changes that Manhattan has gone through comparing the park to the current city.
During a school intensive I had attended with a class, we went to Inwood park and covered the majority of the park on a hike/tour. During the tour we saw the efforts that the park was exercising in order to preserve the native history and resources that Inwood provides. Such native resources are the white pine tress that the indigenous people had used as primitive antibiotics and band-aids. We also discovered the reasoning of the location of the hospital that placed in the utmost north region in the park, this was due to the fact that women of Victorian era nobility who bore children outside of wedlock were exiled and took refuge in the House Of Mercy Hospital. We had also learned a lot of interesting facts such as what glacial potholes* are and how they came to be and also how to identify poison ivy and why it's important to avoid it.
*Glacial Pothole/Kettle: A sediment filled body of water cause by retreating glaciers; often shallow.
Inwood has many things to offer. In June they offer overnight camping trips and tutorials even teaching guests how to navigate via moonlight. They offer canoeing and kayaking during warmer weather as well and just does the best that they can do in order to remind people of our history and that we shouldn't be such a technology dominated society. The park does an impeccable job of showing that you can have immeasurable amounts of fun being outside and enjoying nature just as the indigenous people and the early Americans did.
It isn't an exaggeration to say that parks are crucial to maintain the important balance here in NYC. With everything become lenient towards technology, it's undeniable that we must keep some sort of physically engaging escape lest we desire to take a crippling blow to the health of the average New Yorker. Luckily for us, the inhabitants of the city, we have amazing public parks that offer a vast number of physically and mentally engaging activities that keep us in peak condition, or at least in far better shape than what we would be like without parks. Being able to hike, train, camp, and identify objects in nature are impressive traits to have for a person that would be near impossible to attain without firsthand experience. Inwood Park is an amazing combination of all of these amazing traits to bring out the best of a person's natural side and it should be recommended to all nature lovers.
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